Narendra Modi claims that India has trusted the ruling coalition “for the third time in a row,” despite statistics suggesting that his BJP party is unlikely to win an absolute majority.
One of the main regional partners in Narendra Modi’s coalition, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), has allegedly stated that it does not want Amit Shah to continue serving as the minister of home affairs in the event of a new administration.
This implies that either Shah won’t be appointed home minister or there won’t be a government led by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), according to election expert Shivam Shankar Singh.
Presently, the TDP—which has its headquarters in the coastal state of Andhra Pradesh in the south—is the second-largest member of Modi’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA), after the BJP.
In response to media rumours that the opposition alliance was in contact with them as well, the TDP, as we previously reported, backed Modi as India’s future prime minister, asserting that their alliance with the BJP and Janata Dal (United) remained intact.
